“Hygiene protocol and resistant varieties go hand-in-hand”

As a cucumber grower you have to have iron discipline and nerves of steel. An apparently invisible enemy – CGMMV – is always lurking ready to attack. It’s a troublesome disease that can have profound consequences. If an infection strikes early in the year, the costs in terms of loss of production, early clearing, cleaning up and starting again quickly mount up. Shortfalls of €10 per square metre are no exception.

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